"New World Beginnings"

Indirect Discoverers of the New World The American continents were slow to yield their virginity. The all-conquering Romans, a half century after the birth of Christ, expanded their empire northwestward as far as Britain. America was to be a child of Europe, not of a specific country, such as England. Christian crusaders must take high rank among the indirect discoverers of America. Whatever their true motives, they were avowedly attempting to wrest the Holy Land …

…England, Georgia was launched y a high-minded group of philanthropists. The hamlet of Savannah, like Charleston, was a melting-pot community. The Plantation Colonies Certain distinctive features were shared by England's Southern mainland colonies: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. All the plantation colonies were agitated by an underprivileged back-country element, which was seeking a larger voice in government. All the plantation colonies were in some degree expansive and they occasionally permitted religious toleration.